Download Country GDP by Religion (nominal USD per capita) Dominant

Chart of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of World Countries
grouped by Predominant Religion
by George Wooten, January 2010
The relationship between predominant religion of a country and the
per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is shown in Chart 1. This
graph was produced to determine if the dominant religion of a country
affected the GDP. See the companion document, GDP-by-DominantReligion-summary.pdf, for an explanation.
from World Economic Outlook Database-October 2010, International
Monetary Fund. Accessed on December 11, 2010
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%2
9_per_capita). For approximately 10 countries, GDP data came from a
secondary source, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency.
Accessed on Jan 16, 2011, accessible at the same website. Data on
dominant religion is from Data from Information Please® Database, ©
2007 Pearson Education,
Inc.(http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855613.html).
Chart 1. Per capita GDP of world countries grouped by predominant
religion (numbers following religions refer to population percent for
the dominant religion). Data on per capita GDP by country is primarily
Country GDP by Religion (nominal USD per capita)
Atheist-90
Buddhist-90
Buddhist-70
China
Buddhist-50
Japan
Buddhist-30
Singapore
Catholic-90
Liechtenstein
Catholic-70
Luxembourg
Catholic-50
Christian-90
Christian-70
Christian-50
Dominant Religion - % of Population
Switzerland
Christian-30
Hindu-70
United States
Hindu-30
Indigenous-50
Indigenous-30
Islam-90
Islam-70
Islam-30
India (Hindu)
Indigenous-50
Judaism-70
Qatar
Multiple-50
UAE
Orthodox-90
Orthodox-70
Orthodox-30
Protestant-90
Protestant-70
Israel
Protestant-50
Protestant-30
Denmark
Sunni-90
Sunni-70
Libya
Syncretic-50
Unaffiliated-70
Unaffiliated-50
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000